Neuronal plasticity peaks during critical periods of postnatal development and is reduced
towards adulthood. Recent data suggests that windows of juvenile-like plasticity can
be triggered in the adult brain by antidepressant ...

Previous cross-linguistic research has found that comprehenders are immediately sensitive
to various kinds of agreement violations across languages. We focused on Basque, a
verb-final ergative language with both subjecteverb ...

Incongruent audiovisual speech stimuli can lead to perceptual illusions such as fusions or combinations. Here, we investigated
the underlying audiovisual integration process by measuring ERPs. We observed that visual ...

A continuous stream of syllables is segmented into discrete constituents based on
the transitional probabilities (TPs) between adjacent syllables by means of statistical
learning. However, we still do not know whether ...

The present research explores working memory (WM) development in monolingual
as well as emergent bilingual children immersed in an L2 at school. Evidence from
recent years suggests that bilingualism may boost domain-general ...

Are we aware of the multiple cognitive consequences of being immersed in multilingual learning
contexts? In this opinion article, some recent findings from the field of cognitive neuroscience
and education has been ...

Recent studies reported that Action Video Game-AVG training improves not only certain attentional components, but also reading fluency in children with dyslexia. We aimed to investigate the shared attentional components ...

Several studies reported that healthy elderly with subjective memory complaints (SMC) evolve to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) more frequently than elderly without subjective memory decline. In the present study, we investigated ...

Many bimodal bilinguals are immersed in a spoken language-dominant environment from an early age and, unlike unimodal
bilinguals, do not necessarily divide their language use between languages. Nonetheless, early ASL–English ...

Multilinguals have to control their languages constantly to produce accurate verbal output. They have to inhibit possible lexical competitors not only from the target language, but also from non-target languages. Bilinguals’ ...

Speech production is a complex skill whose neural implementation relies on a large number of different regions in the brain. How neural activity in these different regions varies as a function of time during the production ...

Quantitative analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain requires accurate automated segmentation of anatomical structures. A desirable feature for such segmentation methods is to be robust against ...

Attention supports the allocation of resources to
relevant locations and objects in a scene. Under
most conditions, several stimuli compete for neural
representation. Attention biases neural representation
toward the ...

The perception of speech can be flexible, influenced by multiple sources of information, and plastic, tuned over time to cumulative experience. This chapter provides examples of cognitive neuroscience research, presented ...

During listening comprehension, the identification of individual words can be strongly influenced by properties
of the preceding context. While sentence context can facilitate both behavioral and neural responses, it is ...

Listeners are able to anticipate upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and, as a result, they also pre-activate semantically related words. In the present study, we aim at exploring whether these anticipatory ...

This functional magnetic resonance imaging study established that different portions of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) support reactive and proactive language control processes during multilingual word retrieval. ...

In today’s world, bilingualism is increasingly common. However, it is still unclear how left-lateralized dorsal and ventral
reading networks are tuned to reading in proficient second-language learners. Here, we investigated ...